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The minimum mark is 0.</p>\n  ", "type": "question", "showQuestionGroupNames": false, "tags": ["ACC1012", "checked2015", "MAS1403"], "rulesets": {}, "metadata": {"notes": "<p><strong>06/12/2013</strong></p>\n<p>Replaced a Poisson scenario that wasn't strictly Poisson. (AJY)</p>\n<p><strong>31/12/2012:</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br /></strong>Checked choices, OK. Added tag sc as examples can be easily added to via the arrays b and pd.</p>", "description": "<p>Given descriptions of &nbsp;3 random variables, decide whether or not each is from a Poisson or Binomial distribution.</p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "ungrouped_variables": ["p2", "p3", "b", "mm", "ch3", "ch1", "ch2", "p1", "t", "pd"], "functions": {}, "preamble": {"js": "", "css": ""}, "advice": "<p>No solution given.</p>", "variables": {"t": {"description": "", "definition": "random(0,1)", "name": "t", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "p3": {"description": "", "definition": "random(0..abs(pd)-1)", "name": "p3", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "mm": {"description": "", "definition": "[[1,-1],[1-2*t,2*t-1],[-1,1]]", "name": "mm", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "p1": {"description": "", "definition": "random(0..abs(b)-1)", "name": "p1", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "ch2": {"description": "", "definition": "switch(t=0,b[p2],pd[p2])", "name": "ch2", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "b": {"description": "", "definition": "\n[\"20% of eggs from a family-run farm are bad. 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X is the number of callers that speak to an operator immediately out of thirty such callers.\",\n  \"Experience has shown that two in every ten components produced by a circuitboard company will be defective. A random sample of 100 components is inspected for defects, and D is the number of defectives in this sample.\"]\n", "name": "b", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "pd": {"description": "", "definition": "\n[\"Y is the number of flights sold per hour by an online travel agency. This travel agency usually sells 10 flights per hour.\",\n  \"X is the number of cars sold by a local garage in a month. This garage usually sells about 10 cars per month.\",\n  \"The number of calls, Y, received at the British Passport Office in Durham occurs at the rate of 10 a minute.\",\n  \"We are interested in X, the number of machine breakdowns in a day. Such breakdowns at a particular IT company occur at a rate of eight per week.\",\n  \"X is the number of e-mails arriving in your inbox in a one hour period.  On average you receive 3 e-mails per hour.\",\n  \"On average, three patients arrive at a local Accident and Emergency department every hour. We count the number, X, of patients in an hour period.\",\n  \"About five customers arrive at a fish shop queue every ten minutes during the lunch time rush. 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